It’s been just over a month since Michael Steele was elected Chairman of the Republican National Committee to raucous cheers from the party faithful, many of whom saw the election of the former Lieutenant Governor of Maryland as the first step toward a new day for the Grand Old Party.

After he was sworn in, Steele promised change, and undertook a media blitz of epic proportions, appearing on morning show after morning show to promote his new idea of a Republican Party filled with minorities and young people and conservatives and independents, and pretty much everyone in America except for hardcore liberal Democrats. And in the process, he’s made a string of jaw-dropping gaffes that scream “inexperienced politician,” and has thrown the entire party into tumult.

There was the appearance on D.L. Hughley’s new CNN talk show, in which he tried to connect with rapper and fellow-guest Chuck D, talking about what it was like using hip-hop music to make it out of “the projects.” Chuck D quickly replied that he’s not from the projects. Oops.

Then, on Carlos Silwa’s morning radio show, Steele sent out some “slum love” to Bobby Jindal, “the slumdog millionaire governor.”

He followed that up with a stop-in for a chat with FOX News’s Neil Cavuto, to whom Steele indicated that he’d be open to withholding party funding for 30-year Republican Senate veteran Arlen Specter’s campaign for reelection in Pennsylvania, by way of a punishment for the legislator’s support of the stimulus plan. Within a week of Steele’s comments, Specter was drawing talk of a primary battle, a contest that could end up handing the seat to Democrats. Oops again.

Then there was the disaster that took Steele from shaky to crumbled. In a moment that we still may not know just how badly will hurt Steele’s career, he proclaimed himself the “de facto leader of the Republican Party” and simultaneously called Rush Limbaugh “an entertainer,” “incendiary,” and “ugly.” That might have hurt him with a few ditto-heads, but that was a smack on the chin compared to the sledgehammer to the face of Steele’s credibility when he publicly apologized to Limbaugh- a glorified disc jockey- for questioning his role among conservatives.

Whether you’re a Steele supporter or not, you have to admit that those antics, especially the last one, were embarrassing to the party as a whole. And Steele was brought on to do just the opposite.

How many people actually know the name of the last RNC Chairman? It was Mike Duncan, a Bush loyalist who was largely installed at the RNC to hold down the fort. And just like every RNC chairman before him, Duncan kept a low profile, stayed off the cameras, and conducted business on a local scale. He spent time with state party chairmen finding out what they needed, and worked from there. That’s a far cry from Steele’ showboat style. And it’s becoming clearer whose method was better.

If Steele can’t even keep from firing torpedoes at himself and his party with what has turned out to be an enormous mouth, how can he possibly accomplish everything he claims he will. As of yet, he still hasn’t said how he plans to accomplish his lofty goals of multiculturalism and bipartisanship in the GOP. In fact, all he has said is that he’s not changing a single plank of the traditional party platform…apparently Steele thinks all those new voters will just come to him.

Michael Steele is good for Democrats. He’s all talk, no substance. And even when he is “talk,” it’s the most damaging kind of talk possible. His buffoonery is alienating the very people he’s trying to court, and leaving the typically reliable rank and file shaking their heads at the media circus their party has become. And worse, it’s created a power vacuum that has pushed the GOP closer to complete chaos.

So the question remains: how much longer will Republicans stand behind him?

Republican 'scientists' are crafting a new Frankenstein monster, with Ronald Reagan stem cell parts. The first prototypes might get the villagers to hoist their torches and burn the castle down to stop the monster, but eventually those rich neof@scists will figure out the correct amount of sugar and spice to put into the Monster who will appeal to folks when the Dems are down.

Keep Steele and get Rush to run for public office...hell make him a represenative, we can afford the seat. By the way give JTP something else to mess up..he's bored. Keep these crazy people in the limelight where we can watch them!

Seems some distressed campaign committee funds were hoping for a dole in proportion to RNC-chair's $3 Million check writing.

So, when Steele wrote checks of $1 million to each of the campaigns, they asked why their "welfare" was so light.

The Hill:" Republican infighting escalated Monday with allegations and denials over $4 million once destined for the party’s congressional campaign committees. Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Michael Steele sought to placate critics by giving $1 million to each of his party’s debt-ridden campaign committees — a move that follows a month of bad reviews, national slip-ups and a high-profile fight with one of the country’s most famous conservatives.

But sources told The Hill that Robert "Mike" Duncan, the former chairman, had written checks three times that size — for $3 million to each committee — before he left, and that Steele slashed them to the smaller number.

That is a "lie," says the RNC — and so another round of recrimination begins.

Duncan wrote $3 million checks to both the National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) and the National Republican Senatorial Committee (NRSC) to help them pay down their debt, sources told The Hill."

Oh yes, that whole check writing thing to campaign committees? That is the proper function of the rainmaker that should be a party chair.

And when you offer cut-rate service in your day job yet find time to make frequent media engagements ...

Alan Keyes publicly said a couple of weeks ago: "It is obvious that Barack Obama is a radical communist, and he has got to be stopped!" Mr. Keyes' charaterization of President Obama is nonsense, but the ominous tone of "... he has got to be stopped" sounded to me as hinting that assassination is in order. Michael Steele may be way out of his depth for his job, but I don't think he means any harm, to Obama or anybody else. Alan Keyes, on the other hand, is truly dangerous. Of course, he will not directly advocate murder of a public official, but some twisted minds could make the inference that this is what Mr. Keyes wants somebody to do.

we will gain politically if he stays, because he is pretty much as bad as any RNC head in recent memory, and we will gain politically if he is thrown out on his ass. The message will be clear:

If you are an African-American Republican, you only have value to the GOP if you are a defacto Jim DeMint of Color. Basically, you are there to say the exact same things that Jim DeMint or extremist South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford would say, only the GOP "theoretically" has more appeal to voters of color when you say it. Apparently, using the GOP's logic, this is because the words flow from the mouth of a minority.

"About as insulting to people of color as you can get, taking a stance that 'Oh crap. the other side picked a black guy and now he's President... damnit. We freed the slaves! Ungrateful! Um... we need a black person, quick, grab one! Put him on TV! Stat'"

Where they screwed up is that they wanted Michelle Malkin to be RNC head, and they got a man who actually thought the GOP wanted him to reach out to try and expand the party base. (Now, he did suck at this job, what with the 'bling bling' crap and all, coming across like your uncool uncle using the word 'boss' or 'groovy' often, but he tried. The next RNC head will be a Rushbot.)

"If NY-20 is a Democratic victory, he's gone."

They won't ask for his resignation if the GOP loses that race, they will call some emergency meeting of the RNC and force him out within days.

And JC Watts will look like a genius for staying out of the spotlight as the GOP flounders even more for credibility and outreach in non-white communities.

If Bobby Jindal hadn't given that response to Obama that trainwrecked so badly, he would probably be their dream RNC head. They don't get why Obama won.

So... they see he's black, they see he has appeal, and so they think a minority, any minority, can do the same thing.

If it was more serious than that, they wouldn't have picked a man like Michael Steele.

That question presupposes that he had some to begin with. The guy I call the "articulate idiot" has proved me right in just a month's time.

What's hilarious is that he really WAS the RNC's best choice at the time. If they get rid of him, who do they plug in? Ken Blackwell??? A black man who hates BEING black and other black people as well? He's more conservative than ANYbody white.

Or maybe one of those two crackers who didn't make the first cut? Remember the "Barack The Magic Negro" guy? NEgro? In 2009?

I think I'll just pop me some popcorn, sit back and enjoy the show. Republicans in disarray; I LOVE it!

"He registered as GOP" has to be the best line I've heard about this laughing stock of a politican!
This guy is great... and by the looks of things, Republicans want Dem's in office for many many years!

and Michael Steele is their token. Do you think they put him in this position because he's qualified? A good leader? Smart? No...look at our new president. Look at Michael Steele. See anything they have in common?

Republicans deserve this. Choosing Steele was the worst sort of racism. Because people voted for Obama they assumed that it had to do with this skin color. As if, hey we can just use any black guy and people will vote for him. WRONG. It's just as dumb as parading just any old white guy. Or woman (ahem Palin).

It isn't about race or gender. When people voted for Obama they didn't vote black man. They voted for a particular black man. With the right qualities to lead. Michael Steele can't lead his way out of a tin can.

The Republicans, because of their racism, just choose some random black guy instead of really choosing the right person. Their racism has come back to bite them in the ass.

President Obama was elected by Independents, Reagan Democrats, Blue Dog Democrats, Republican in Name Only, Libertarians, etc. From my "Independent" perspective... the GOP stands for 1) De-Regulation of Business and 2) Regulation of Morality. The De-Regulation of Business removed consumer protections, rewarded job outsourcing and caused the economic collapse. Allowing Evangelical Christians to set the social agenda caused the "Separation of Church and State" divide over: school prayer, sex education, AIDS prevention, abortion rights, gay marriage, etc. Today the DEMS stand for working class jobs and common sense. Who knows, next election may be the opposite!